Can an IT person explain this please

[PeterCPC]

Firstly I'm not sure that this is the correct place to post.

However, I had an HP laptop that had failed (graphics) and removed the hard drive (2.5" SATA 500GB). I thought that I would put this in a case to use as an external hard drive. I formatted it (NTFS) but it says that it's only 1.5GB!!

Could somebody tell me where the other 485GB have gone? Thanks.

Peter

[xtreemchaos]

it sounds like you havnt formated the whole drive, maybe just the windows temp or backup bit whats used for loading windows it looks the right size, did you delete all partisons ?. charl.

[kev]

Are you sure you formatted the main partition and not the system partition before it?

think i would delete all partitons on the drive from computer msnager didkmsnaget and then start again

 

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[MarsG76]

Yeah, it seems like you have formatted the recovery partition... if you have a look at a partition manager like the Disk manager in Adminstrative tools in windows or something like Hard Disk utilities by Paragon, or similar, you will perhaps find a unpartitioned area of the HDD, and that's where your missing storage is.

 

[PeterCPC]

I looked in disk management and found this

so what do I do now?

Peter

 

[Knighty2112]

No expert here, but just googled this so fingers crossed for you.

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001765.htm

[PeterCPC]

Well I right clicked on the partitioned part of the drive and now it shows it as 698.64GB Unallocated but it does not show in File Explorer anymore so how do I access it?

Peter

[MarsG76]

25 minutes ago, PeterCPC said:

I looked in disk management and found this

so what do I do now?

Peter

 

Delete the E: 1.55Gb partition, than the whole drive will be 700gb (more or less) of Unallocated space... right click and create a new partition....that will create a single partition the full size of the HDD, than format as normal.

 

[PeterCPC]

I tried to right click as you say and I just get the options of New Simple Volume, New spanned volume and new striped volume - whatever they are.

Peter

[LightBucket]

None of that makes sense if it is a 500gb drive as you have nearly 700gb unalloctaed...!,!, so the drive is NOT a 500gb drive, it must me a 750gb at a guess...??

[PeterCPC]

Yes I must have misread the label.

Peter

[LightBucket]

Right click the E drive useable portion and click expand, and it should be able to expand and use up all the unallocated space...

[LightBucket]

I that does not work then as said before delete the partition, and then create new one and it should use all the available space for the new partition

[PeterCPC]

Success!!

I created a new Simple Volume and it formatted. Now shows as E Drive. Thanks to all who assisted.

Peter

[rwilkey]

20 minutes ago, LightBucket said:

None of that makes sense if it is a 500gb drive as you have nearly 700gb unalloctaed...!,!, so the drive is NOT a 500gb drive, it must me a 750gb at a guess...??

That is the C drive, not the one in question, however, well done Peter for sorting out the problem.

[LightBucket]

13 minutes ago, rwilkey said:

That is the C drive, not the one in question, however, well done Peter for sorting out the problem.

No it’s not, please check again as the C drive is actually 2 terabyte...! The one in question is the bottom one.... E

[LightBucket]